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" In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world. "
Paul Ryan
Equal
World
Results
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" When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future. "
Paul Ryan
Left
Serious
Ideas
" A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year. "
Paul Ryan
Win
America
Authority
" Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity. "
Paul Ryan
Way
Spending
Prosperity
" We see ourselves in the House as sort of the engine room of the ship of the Republican Party. We're down in the bottom... in the bowels shoveling coal into the furnace. And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with coal. "
Paul Ryan
Republican
Ship
Down
" The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy. "
Paul Ryan
Control
Economy
Just
" I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition. "
Paul Ryan
Political
Ambition
Policy
" Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. "
Paul Ryan
I Am Happy
Deer
Happy
" If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws. "
Paul Ryan
Law
Change
Congress
" We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. "
Paul Ryan
Politics
Past
Need
" After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney. "
Paul Ryan
Job
America
Years
" This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars. "
Paul Ryan
Budget
Wave
Security
" What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control. "
Paul Ryan
Decisions
Control
Future
" We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them. "
Paul Ryan
Government
People
Listening
" The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering. "
Paul Ryan
Leadership
Know
Control
" What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? "
Paul Ryan
Time
Leadership
Man
" Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare. "
Paul Ryan
Healthcare
Want
Achieve
" My mom's now enjoying Medicare. She's already retired. She earned it. But for those of us, you know, the X-Generation on down, it won't be there for us on its current path. "
Paul Ryan
Path
She
You
" The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. "
Paul Ryan
Political
Worst
Welfare
" Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. "
Paul Ryan
Responsibility
Choices
Free
" Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. "
Paul Ryan
Community
Working Together
Achievement
" We are in a global economy whether we like it or not. And we believe - I believe - that America should be at the table writing the rules of the global economy instead of China. "
Paul Ryan
Rules
Table
Writing
" Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes. "
Paul Ryan
Veil
Drops
Now
" People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles. "
Paul Ryan
Rifles
Constitutional
Right
" To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois. "
Paul Ryan
Great
Hope
Politics
" We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead. "
Paul Ryan
Tough
Will
Duck
" I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place. "
Paul Ryan
Kind
Live
Up
" That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life. "
Paul Ryan
Society
Plan
Opportunity
" And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. "
Paul Ryan
Elderly
Power
Play
" I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready. "
Paul Ryan
Know
America
Children
" What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. "
Paul Ryan
More
Debt
Just